Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1887-05-19
NEWSY NOTES.

wha county has suspended.
Ridenour, convicted at Winchester of
murder, is given new trial.
Eighty buildings burned at Lebanon, n.
II. and go families homeless.
Ten thousand immigrants arrived in New
York Wednesday of last week.
Earthquakes in Arizona, New Mexico
and at FL Paso, Tex. last week.
The northern and western hotel men held
a convention at Washington last week.
The Legislature has adopted a resolution
approving the Interstate Commerce law.
Jas. W. Hyatt of Conn. succeeds Conrad
Jordan as U. S. Treasurer at Washington.
The Maryland Masonic Grand Lodge Gel
ebrated its centennial in Baltimore last
week.
One hundred and fifty miners imprisoned
in a burning shaft at Nanaimo, British Co.
lumbia.
A horse in a Newton IN. H. stable kick
ed over lamp and 81 buildings went up
in smoke.
Emma Morgan, aged 40, servant, was
outraged and murdered by unknown parties
at Morgantown.
The Washington Monument will be closed
to visitors after June | because of vandalism
by relic-hunters.
Chas. Farmer, of Va, an employee of the
Yellow Pine Lumber Co, at Woodville,
Tex, has been murdered.
Col. II. Kyd Douglas is appointed on the
staff of Gen c. G. Augur, commanding the
National Drill Camp at Washington.
The Grand Army comrades in Washing.
ton have taken possession of their new
hall on Penn. ave. opposite Wizards hotel.
The Southern Baptist convention met in
Louisville last Friday. 1900 delegates
present-each representing 500 to be used
for missions
DR.. F. H. Kerfoot is elected adjunct pro-
fessor in the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary. He will especially assist Prof.
Jas P. Boyce.
The Lincoln Hall formerly Y. NJ. G..
A. property at 9th and ID SITS. Washington,
is sold to A. Burgdorf: 1860 So #. at
%51-$79,9Sl.5O.
Kentucky democrats have nominated Gen.
Simon Bolivar Buckner for governor. The
platform endorses Cleveland except as to
his civil service policy.
A vigorous colt was taken from dying
brood mare by the Cesarian operation at a
Pontiac Mich stock yard-the first in
stance of the kind in that region.
The New York Sd Army Corps will in
vite the survivors Of the Armies of West
Virginia, Virginia, the Potomac and also
the Grand Army men to a reunion at Get
tysburg July l, and 3, 1888.
At wharf in New Orleans a crowd as
sembled to witness a baptizing. The rail
ing of the wharf gave way and fifty persons
were precipitated into the water. Many
were drowned-eight of them children.
At Jackson, Miss, State Senator Hamil.
ton aged 30 shot and killed r. d. Gambrill
aged 80, editor of the Prohibition organ, fol-
printing articles rejecting on his public
character Hamilton was badly wounded
At Holidays Cove village in Hancock
county, 30 miles north of Wheeling last
week Mrs. v B. Baker and her widowed
mother, Mrs. Drusia Nc VIVA were murder
ed and the husband of Mrs. Baker is accused
The clipper Charmer OF the New York
and California line, and the half clipper
ship Seminole of Sutton's California Dis
patch line, have left New York for a race
around Cape Horn to San Francisco, dis
lance of 5000 miles. The passage will
probably take 40 days.
Picketts Division Association of ex- Con-
federates will not have a reunion July at
Gettysburg, where they were to select a site
for a monument-the Gettysburg Memorial
Association having refused to allow any
Confederate monument to be erected within
the lines of the Union forces.
An instance of honesty unparalleled in
the nineteenth century has just come to
light at New Haven, Conn, where Daniel
Hand, a former grocer in Charleston, S. c.,
has had returned to him 100000 by Geo.
w. Williams a cotton factor there who, as
Hands book-keeper, was intrusted with his
business in 1861.
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